I was trying to be ironic with that last line about the chapter being closed. Clearly it won't be closed for a long time, because as you have stated, the death toll is already over 150,000 and is still mounting. The rebuilding of Haiti will take many years.

Not that the local journalists seem to care much.

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- David Sedaris